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Lesson 2: Indian Treaties and the Removal Act of 1830

California CCSS: Focus Standards

Analyze an informational text to better understand how events and government actions led to the Indian Removal Act.
Compare ideas and explain consequences using contrast connectors and cause-and-effect language in discussion.

What does it mean to live responsibly within natural systems?
How do different disciplines and traditions, including scientific inquiry and cultural knowledge, help us understand our relationship to the natural world?

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Indian Treaties and the Removal Act of 1830

Office of the Historian, U.S. State Department, adapted by Newsela